masculinism

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masculinism

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From masculine + -ism, as opposed to feminism.

noun masculinisms

  1. uncountable, usually An ideology of masculinity or of male rights; considered as opposed to feminism. While only women can participate in the building of a feminist culture, without the interference — however well-intentioned — of men, men can facilitate that process by refusing to participate in the old order of masculinism.
  2. uncountable, usually Mannishness. The greater part of these various anatomical peculiarities and functional anomalies point, more or less clearly, to the prevalence among inverts of a tendency to infantilism, combined with feminism in men and masculinism in women

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@misc{masculinism_2026,
  title = {masculinism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/masculinism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}